The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
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.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
