Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.

Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of ones day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.