A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
People fall forward to success.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
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.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
