I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
People fall forward to success.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
