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.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

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

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

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

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

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

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.