“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Learning is the true imperishable riches; all other things are not riches.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.