Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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

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.

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

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Our true nationality is mankind.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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

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

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.