Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.