Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
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.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
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.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
