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.
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.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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.
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.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
