Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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.
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.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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?
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.