The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

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

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

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.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

A person's a person, no matter how small.

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

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

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.

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

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.

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

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.