All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
People fall forward to success.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
