A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
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.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
A human being is a deciding being.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
