Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

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.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

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.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

People fall forward to success.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

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.