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.
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.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
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.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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 becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
People fall forward to success.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
