People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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 man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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 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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Our true nationality is mankind.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
People fall forward to success.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
