“Do you have a clear written purpose of your life? If not, why don’t you make it now?”

“Self-education is open to all but it is taken only by those who refuse to live a small and purposeless life.”

“Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.”

“I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.”

“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For ‘easy’ and ‘right’ are rarely compatible.”

“L’homme grandit au même temps que ça mission!”

“The man grows up at the same time as this mission!”

“You’re so quiet and subdued! You worry me. Are you well?”“Quite well. Deflated, perhaps. I have been deserted by my enemies. The affair is over. I am done.”

“Do all the work while you still have strength.”

“My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.”

“It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man’s love for himself and for his race.”

“It is my passion to rise to great heights, but instead I dig holes where I plummet to great depths. And when will I learn that God trades shovels for wings?”

“Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.”

“The universal mission of all educators is to let the torch of knowledge illuminate the world.”