Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.