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.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
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.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
