If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
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.
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.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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.
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.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
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.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
