A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
