No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
No man can given anybody his freedom.
A man is born free.
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.