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

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.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

A human being is a deciding being.

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

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

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

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

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.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

A person's a person, no matter how small.

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's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.