A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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?
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A human being is a deciding being.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
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.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
