Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

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.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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.

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.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.