I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Our true nationality is mankind.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
