Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
