We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Our true nationality is mankind.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
People fall forward to success.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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?
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
