A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
People fall forward to success.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
