A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
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.
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
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
People fall forward to success.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
