Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

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.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.