Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
