Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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.
A human being is a deciding being.
