It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
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.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
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.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
