A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
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.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Our true nationality is mankind.
