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.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
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.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
