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 want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
A human being is a deciding being.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
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.
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.