The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
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.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
