There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

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

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.