Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
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.
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.
