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
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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 can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
