Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
People fall forward to success.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!