We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.