Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
