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 despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

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

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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

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

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.