If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
People fall forward to success.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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 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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
