Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
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.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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?
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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.
