A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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.
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 man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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 demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
