After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
People fall forward to success.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
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.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.