Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel

Science is one of tools God uses to display his power and the optimum potentials He has deposited in man.

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.