You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

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.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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.