When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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.
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.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
