The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers. Martina Navratilova
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. E.B.White
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. E.B.White
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. Norman Cousins
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Epictetus
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.Martin Luther King
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.Albert Einstein
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. Lyman Abbott
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. James A.Baldwin
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. Bernard M. Baruch
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. Virginia Woolf