Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

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

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.