No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

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.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

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

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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.

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

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

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

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.