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.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
A human being is a deciding being.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
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 person's a person, no matter how small.
People fall forward to success.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.