All religions have been made by men.

Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

A true man hates no one.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!