Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
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.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
