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

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

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

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

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

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People fall forward to success.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

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

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

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.