Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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 are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.