In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world.

More obscene than anything is inertia.

Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

'Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.'

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…