Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Smile if you want a smile from another face.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
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.
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
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.
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
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.