How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
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.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
