These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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.
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?
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
