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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

A human being is a deciding being.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

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.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

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.

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

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.