The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
People fall forward to success.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Our true nationality is mankind.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
