I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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.
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.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
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
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Our true nationality is mankind.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
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.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
