The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

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.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

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.

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.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.