A human being is a deciding being.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
