Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
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.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
