One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Real strength has to do with helping others.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.