There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.
A useless life is an early death. [Ger. , Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod. ]
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.