A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
People fall forward to success.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.