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.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
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.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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.
