(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A human being is a deciding being.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A man is literally what he thinks.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

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

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

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

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

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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.

But man is not made for defeat,'he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

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

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

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.

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

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

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.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

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

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

One man with courage is a majority.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

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

The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The way to know life is to love many things.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

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

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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

There's place and means for every man alive.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

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.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.