Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

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

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

People fall forward to success.

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

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.