He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
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.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
