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.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
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 is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
