All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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.
A human being is a deciding being.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
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.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
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.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
