All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
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.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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 human being is a deciding being.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
