Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Prayer is speaking to God— but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

sometimes is good to be in patience, it can be mean understand, sometimes patience can describe as sacrifice, but everytime it hurting ourself

All Medicines are poisons, and all poisons should be looked at for medicinal properties.

There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth and they never believe me.