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.
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.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
People fall forward to success.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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.