Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
People fall forward to success.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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.
