If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A human being is a deciding being.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
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.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
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.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.