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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
