What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
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.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.