All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?
I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.
I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.
Pleasure brings pain, but inner silence brings nothing negative; it is in itself of great value and is a far better way to be than to be in ego states.
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
