Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
