To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.