Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

A human being is a deciding being.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.