People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.