No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
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.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
