This is a world of action, and not for mopping and drowning in.

Wisdom is the landing pad of experience.

You feed your depressive thoughts through overthinking.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. l 

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

It is about one's wisdom that came with the years of hardship.

Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.