To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
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.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
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.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.