The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

A human being is a deciding being.

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.

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.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Our true nationality is mankind.

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

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.