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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
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
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
