What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, 'What happened?'.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Man is a luxury loving animal.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce.
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
In violence, we forget who we are.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
A man is truly ethical only when [...] he tears no leaf from a tree, plucks no flower, and takes care to crush no insects.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer.
Never try to make anyone like yourself. You know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
To be adult is to be alone.
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist by what I think [...] and I can't prevent myself from thinking.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.
For, I ask, what is man in Nature? A cypher compared with the Infinite, an All compared with Nothing, a mean between nothing and all.
It's not a color of skin that should separate people, but a thickness.
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.
Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. [...] As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Art is the signature of man.
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him.
It is easier to know men than to know a man.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
