It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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?
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
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.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
