People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
