Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

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

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.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.