“If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.”

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

It isn’t more light we need, it isn’t more truth, and it isn’t more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

There’s something fundamentally wrong with a system where there’s been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.