No nation respects a beggar.

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

Whoever knows himself knows God.

Accept your own and be yourself!

Asking good questions is half of learning.

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.

How many roads must a man walk down?

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.

I want to mark him permanently, brand him as mine. I grab my ankles to keep from grabbing him, digging my short, blunt nails into my flesh, the pain heightening my pleasure.

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.