People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
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.
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.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
