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

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

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

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.