People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
