Show me a man who keeps his house in hand, he’s fit for public authority.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.