Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Sunlight is painting.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.