We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
People fall forward to success.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Our true nationality is mankind.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission