It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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.
