The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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.
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.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.