Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
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.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
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.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
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 musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.