Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Hope springs eternal.
Be that self which one truly is.
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
A kindness is never wasted.
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
More than machinery, we need humanity.
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.