How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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.
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.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
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.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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.
