All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
