One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

A human being is a deciding being.

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

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

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

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

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.