How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
A human being is a deciding being.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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?
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
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 people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
