Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
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.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
