What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.