We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
