People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
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.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
