Spped Quotes

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Let there be no purpose

in friendship save the

deepening of the spirit.

Everyone should have a passion.

If you’re passionate about something,

you’ll work hard at it.

I thank God for my failures

Maybe not at the time but

after some reflection.

I never feel like a failure

just because something

I tried has failed.

Don’t let anyone dim your shine.

Here I stand,

I can do no other.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities.

Truth isn't.

Life is messy,

but beauty is found in the struggle.

People do not seem to realize that

their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves

by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam

the door on potential opportunities.

We go through life walking a tightrope

to prevent too much disillusionment.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Delight in meditation and solitude.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:

it goes on.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize

the extent of your own ignorance.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.