A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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 people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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.
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.