A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
People fall forward to success.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
