The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
People fall forward to success.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
