A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Our true nationality is mankind.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
