People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
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.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.