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.

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.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

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

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

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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.

People fall forward to success.