The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

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

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

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.

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

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 person's a person, no matter how small.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

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.