On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
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.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
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.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
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.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
