Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

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.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.