It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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 first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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 may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
