Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
