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.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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.
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 great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
