We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
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.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
