The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Love and work, work and love... that’s all there is.
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.