He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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 man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
