Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
A human being is a deciding being.
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?
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
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.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
