Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.