The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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.
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.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
