Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
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.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
