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.

People fall forward to success.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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

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

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

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.

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

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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.