When You Clench Your Fist, No One

I Look At My Books The Way Parents Look At Their Children. The Fact That One Becomes More Successful Than The Others Doesn't Make Me Love The Less Successful One Any Less.

I Certainly Wasn't Seeking Any Degree, The Way A College Confers A Status Symbol Upon Its Students. My Homemade Education Gave Me, With Every Additional Book That I Read, A Little Bit More Sensitivity To The Deafness, Dumbness And Blindness That Was Afflicting The Black Race In America. Not Long Ago, An English Writer Telephoned Me, Asking Questions. One Was, "what's Your Alma Mater?" I Told Him, "books.

My Parents Were Teachers And They Went Out Of Their Way To See To It That I Had Books. We Grew Up In A Home That Was Full Of Books. And So I Learned To Read. I Loved To Read.

Never Completely Encircle Your Enemy. Leave Him Some Escape, For He Will Fight Even More Desperately If Trapped.

The Way To Succeed Is Never Quit. That's It. But Really Be Humble About It. ... You Start Out Lowly And Humble And You Carefully Try To Learn An Accretion Of Little Things That Help You Get There.