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.
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.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
People fall forward to success.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
