The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.