It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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.
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.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
