Vanity prevents improvement

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.

We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.

In all the world, you are what I love the most.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.