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.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
People fall forward to success.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
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.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.