Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
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.
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 great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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.
