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.

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

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Our true nationality is mankind.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

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.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

People fall forward to success.

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