There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

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.

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

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

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

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.