“Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.”

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Poor people spend their money and save what’s left, rich people save their money and spend what’s left.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.

You’ve got to believe in the possibilities. You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here’s the big one. Believe in yourself.

How long should you try? Until.

The major key to your better future is you.

Learn to express, not impress.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.