Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Our true nationality is mankind.

A human being is a deciding being.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.