“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.”

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Anything forced is not beautiful.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.

We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.

I am a stranger in all countries.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

People keep changing colours time and again. Today your words have so much value and you stress for their opinion, tomorrow you don’t even exist to them.

Somebody does somethin’ stupid, that’s human. They don’t stop when they see it’s wrong, that’s a fool.

Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Kindness affects both humans and plants.