“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.”

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn’t matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

When did our need to overpower one another, outgrow our desire to love?

I cause destruction everywhere I go I’m a wildfire gentle is not my nature.

Most of the narcissists are geniuses and masters of Psychology. But they are using their knowledge to eradicate, rather than to help humanity.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.