The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.