The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
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.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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.
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.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
