Force always attracts men of low morality.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown that terror becomes the known.

Books are not men, and yet they stay alive.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Different men seek happiness in different ways and by different means.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

All men by nature desire to know.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.