A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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

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.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

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.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

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