The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A human being is a deciding being.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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 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.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own 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.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
