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

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

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

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.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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

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

A human being is a deciding being.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

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

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

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

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

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

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

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