There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

People fall forward to success.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

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.