I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
A human being is a deciding being.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
