No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.
My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.