Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
People fall forward to success.
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.
A human being is a deciding being.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
