A person's a person, no matter how small.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
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.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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.
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.
People fall forward to success.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
