People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
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?
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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 human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
