We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Our true nationality is mankind.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.