Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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 man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
People fall forward to success.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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.
