Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
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.
