Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

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

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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

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

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

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