Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

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

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

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

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.