People fall forward to success.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
