I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom read more

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows read more

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if read more

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance read more

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.