People fall forward to success.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
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.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.