Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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.

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.

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.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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.

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.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

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.

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

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.