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
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
A human being is a deciding being.
Our true nationality is mankind.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
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.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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?
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
