Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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.
A human being is a deciding being.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
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.
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.
