"Getting ahead in life is not easy. It's just the opposite. I have learned that you have to do a lot of things that ar…"

"Getting ahead usually involves being bold and never accepting that you've reached your personal potential. In my care…"

""Others, not self" has become my core value- selflessness rather than selfishness- and that has made me a happier per…"

"Writing this autobiography has been one of the toughest things I've done. It brought back a lot of memories. I had to…"

"You do not know what the next chapter of your life will bring. No matter how far down you may feel today every valley…"

"Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal."

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."

"It was a Native Son who, when asked by an Englishman, visiting the United States for the first time, to name the Seve…"