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

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

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

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.

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

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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.

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.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

People fall forward to success.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.