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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

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

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.