Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
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.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Our true nationality is mankind.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.