Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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.
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.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
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.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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?
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
