The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
