Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
A human being is a deciding being.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the 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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
