After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

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

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

People fall forward to success.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

A human being is a deciding being.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

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

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.

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.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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