A person's a person, no matter how small.

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.

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

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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

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

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

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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!

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

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

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

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.