The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
