The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.