A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

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.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

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.

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 desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

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.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

A human being is a deciding being.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.