Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
A human being is a deciding being.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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?
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
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.
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
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.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
