It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
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.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
People fall forward to success.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
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.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
