All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
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.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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.
