A human being is a deciding being.

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

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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

People fall forward to success.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

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

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

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

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

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.

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.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.