“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.