Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get a...way from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs... from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once you've been launched into parenthood, you'll need all your best skills, self-control, good judgment and patience. But at the ...same time there is nothing like the thrill and exhilaration that come from watching that bright, cheerful, inquisitive, creative, eccentric and even goofy child you have raised flourish and shine. That's what keeps you going, and what, in the end, makes it all worthwhile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and sudden...ly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praise ...from your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what h...e wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »