A person's a person, no matter how small.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

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

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

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

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

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.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

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?

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

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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.