The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
A human being is a deciding being.
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?
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
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.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
