Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
