I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

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

A human being is a deciding being.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

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

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.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

People fall forward to success.

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

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

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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