A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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 man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
A human being is a deciding being.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
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.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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.