On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

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.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

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 person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

People fall forward to success.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.