I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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.
