It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.