Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
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.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
