Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
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.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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?
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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 capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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.
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.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.