After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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 person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
