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.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
