Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

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.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

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

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.