"Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to."

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck."

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

"It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge."

"Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying."