What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
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.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
