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.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
