Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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.
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.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
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.
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.
