"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

"There are no gains without pains"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"