A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. – Baltasar Gracian
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. – Baltasar Gracian
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. – Baltasar Gracian
The things we remember best are those better forgotten. – Baltasar Gracian
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967