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.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
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.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
