Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

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.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.