Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.