We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
