We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
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 woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
