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.
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.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
