Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
A human being is a deciding being.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
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.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
People fall forward to success.
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.
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.
