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.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
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.
