I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
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.
