"I am responsible only to God and history."

"The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter."

"I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time."

"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."

"Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself."

"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don't stand for the white man's side, I stand for God's side."

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

"Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions."

"Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings."

"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."

"You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them."