A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Man, all lives matter.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.