People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.

I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable nowdays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

I went to my mother and told her I intended to commence a different life. I asked for and obtained her blessing and at once commenced the career of a robber.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.