The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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.
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.
Our true nationality is mankind.
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.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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?
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.
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.
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 person's a person, no matter how small.
