Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them... your smile, your hope, and your courage.