Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
People fall forward to success.
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.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
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.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Our true nationality is mankind.
