Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
A human being is a deciding being.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
People fall forward to success.
