Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
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.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
