There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

Imagination encircles the world.