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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
People fall forward to success.
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.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.