The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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 people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.