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.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
People fall forward to success.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.