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.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

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.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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

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

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

A human being is a deciding being.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.