Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
