The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.