The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
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.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
