It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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.
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.