In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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.
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.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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.
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.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
People fall forward to success.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
