Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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.
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.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
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 talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
