In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

3 qualities of a good management

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Theres nothing better than keeping fit. It gives me energy and helps me think more clearly.