A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
