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

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

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

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

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.