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.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

A human being is a deciding being.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

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

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...