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.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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?
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
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.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.