A human being is a deciding being.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

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.

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

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

People fall forward to success.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

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.

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

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.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.