The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
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.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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?
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.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
