I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
I never did, and I never will, thank any man for altering any one word of my compositions without my privity.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
