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
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
