Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
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 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.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
