Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
A human being is a deciding being.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
