On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

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.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

A human being is a deciding being.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

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.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.