We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
A human being is a deciding being.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
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.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.