Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.