The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

People fall forward to success.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

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

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

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.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

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

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.