There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
