Society and the World

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Like the PC, the Internet is a tidal wave. It will wash over the computer industry and many others, drowning those who don’t learn to swim in its waves.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

Too great haste in paying off an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude, especially when it is committed against parents.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

If a life can have a theme song, and I believe every worthwhile one has, mine is a religion, an obsession, or a mania or all of these expressed in one word: individualism.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.

to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

I took the road less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.