What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty not like going to the zoo but to take action to open their hearts and their consciences.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct not by their professions.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition men have at all times and in all countries called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine beer opium brandy or tobacco.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice crime ambition injustice oppression slavery and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.