People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
