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 greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

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

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

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.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.