Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
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.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
People fall forward to success.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
