A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

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.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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?

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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

A human being is a deciding being.

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

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

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.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

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