Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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

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

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

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.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

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.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

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

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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 is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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

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