All sins are attempts to fill voids.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
