A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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.
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.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
People fall forward to success.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.