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.
People fall forward to success.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
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 always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Our true nationality is mankind.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
