Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

People fall forward to success.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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.

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