Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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?
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
