Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

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

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

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

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

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

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.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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.

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

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.

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.