All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
