A debt may get moldy, but it never decays.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors.
Charity... is the opium of the privileged.
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
No man, however great, is greater than his people.
Nobody can teach me who I am.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.
The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
There is no story that is not true.
There is that great proverb- that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
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