All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
People fall forward to success.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
A human being is a deciding being.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
