Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

The problem with books is that they end.

Arise! Arise! Arise and shine!May Christ message of eternal life fill your heart with everlasting love, hope, happiness and new dreams.

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability