Society and the World

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

He best can pity who has felt the woe.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas—and you have to work through it all.

Say not you know a man entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.

Modesty is to merit what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.