Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
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.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
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.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
