Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
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.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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.
