All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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 capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
