Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

We are all alike, on the inside.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Homophobia is real in this country.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.