It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

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

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

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

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

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.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

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

A human being is a deciding being.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.