Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.