A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
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.
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.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
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.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
