All sins are attempts to fill voids.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
