Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
People fall forward to success.
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.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
