How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Our true nationality is mankind.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
People fall forward to success.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
