A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be