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.

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

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

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.

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

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.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

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

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

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

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

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

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

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

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

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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