A human being is a deciding being.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
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.
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
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Our true nationality is mankind.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.