How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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.
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.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
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.
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.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
