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.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
