People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
A human being is a deciding being.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?