Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
A human being is a deciding being.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
