Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
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.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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 question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.