Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
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.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.