Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
Our true nationality is mankind.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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.
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.
