Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
People fall forward to success.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
