Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

People fall forward to success.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Our true nationality is mankind.