Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Negative emotions impact the human psyche

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Solyndra is a great investment in our future

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.

You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.