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.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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 narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
