Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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.
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.
