In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
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.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
