Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
People fall forward to success.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Our true nationality is mankind.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
