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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
People fall forward to success.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
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.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
