Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
