In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. 

God is everywhere.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. 

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishmonent and the other by acts of love. Power based  love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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.'

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. 

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.