A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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.
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.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Our true nationality is mankind.