Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
