What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

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 fall forward to success.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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

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.

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

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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

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.