Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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?
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.