A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
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.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
A human being is a deciding being.
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.
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
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.