Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
