A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
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.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
