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.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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.
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.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
