There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
