People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

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

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

People fall forward to success.

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

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

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

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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

A human being is a deciding being.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

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