A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
