Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
A human being is a deciding being.
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 sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
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.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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.