I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

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.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

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

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

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

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

People fall forward to success.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.