People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
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.
A human being is a deciding being.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
