Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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 question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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.
