There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
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.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
People fall forward to success.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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 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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
