The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins - a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.