Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.