Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

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

People fall forward to success.

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.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

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.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

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

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

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

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

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

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