How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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 question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
