In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

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

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

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.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

People fall forward to success.