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.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
