A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
