A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

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

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 great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

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.

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.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

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

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

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

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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

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

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.