Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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.
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.
