In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

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

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

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

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

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

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

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

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

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

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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

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

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

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

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