A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

People fall forward to success.

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

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

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

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.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.