All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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

People fall forward to success.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

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

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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?

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

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

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.

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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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.