Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

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

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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?

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.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

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

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.

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.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.