Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
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.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
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.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
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