Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.