The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

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.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

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

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

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.