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
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
