Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A human being is a deciding being.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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?
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
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.
