Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Our true nationality is mankind.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

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.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

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.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.