"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."

"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."

"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."

"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."