Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
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.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
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
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
