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.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
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
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
