People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
A human being is a deciding being.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
