Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

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

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.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

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

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

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.

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

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

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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

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

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

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

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

Our true nationality is mankind.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.