As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.

Compassion is not weakness it's Christ-like

The best way to deal with your past is not to avoid thinking about it or trying to forget it, but to accept it happened, forgive yourself and move on.

While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature.

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

We all like to prove people wrong who say we're no good.