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.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.