Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.
You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.
You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.