If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
People fall forward to success.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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 sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.