A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

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.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

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

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

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

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.

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.

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

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

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

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.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission