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.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A human being is a deciding being.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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.
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.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
