The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.