The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
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?
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
