Our true nationality is mankind.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
People fall forward to success.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
