All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
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.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
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.
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.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
