People fall forward to success.
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.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
