Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
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 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.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
