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

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

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

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

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

People fall forward to success.

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

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

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

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.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

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

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

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

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.