All sins are attempts to fill voids.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
People fall forward to success.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
