Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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.
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.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
