Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common read more

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater read more

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared read more

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.