It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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.