Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
