You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

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

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

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

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

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