Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?” “I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

I promise you, my Majesty, there’s no better nation in the entire world than the New World.

To make the voyage to the Indies a success, I did not make use of intelligence or maps.

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Life is made of so many partings welded together

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom, he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown—ignotum per ignotius—that is by the name of God.

As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims; but as an artist, he is a man in a higher sense. He is a ‘collective man’—one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people

Men will not receive education and manners from their equals, even though they are the wisest and most virtuous of men.

You’d better not kill me, man, I’ve got s**t to do tomorrow

No longer able to believe in the Church religion, whose falsehood they had detected, and incapable of accepting true Christian teaching, which denounced their whole manner of life, these rich and powerful people, stranded without any religious conception of life, involuntarily returned to that pagan view of things which places life’s meaning in personal enjoyment.