Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

A human being is a deciding being.

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.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!