After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

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

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

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.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

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.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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

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.