The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

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

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.

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

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Our true nationality is mankind.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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.

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.

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

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

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!