We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

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.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

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.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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.

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

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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.

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