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 person's a person, no matter how small.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
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.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
