That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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.