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.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
People fall forward to success.
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 people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
