On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

People fall forward to success.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.