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.

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

People fall forward to success.

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.

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

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

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

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

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.

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

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.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.