Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
