We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Our true nationality is mankind.
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.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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.
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.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
