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
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
