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

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

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.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

People fall forward to success.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

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

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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

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

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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.

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.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.