Our true nationality is mankind.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
People fall forward to success.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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.