Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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 first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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.
