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.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

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

Our true nationality is mankind.