Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
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.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.