"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."

"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."

"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."

"The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."

"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

"Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty."

"It was a great individual accomplishment."

"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."

"There aren't many kids like him. He's one of the best players in the country. He has high, high energy and he's at that position that we've used so well for 20 years - the mismatch at the four."

"I thought at that time that 1992 would be my ultimate Olympic experience and it was a pretty darn good one, ... I'd like for this to be the ultimate Olympic experience."

"I've never seen this here at Duke, where with 13 guys you get [one player] with 40 points. He's off the charts with his focus and commitment. Nobody has had more or done it better here."

"This is going to be a matter of collective responsibility,"

"One, I think it showed that the game was really important, but secondly, how that was handled was maybe the best thing that happened today. It was so darn good. This has been the classiest league in the country since its inception."

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."

"If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win."

"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."

"The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little."