All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.” In these words he...

It’s a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge...

Don’t reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel...

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I...

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

Father Brendan Flynn: “A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew – I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great...

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty destroying, since everyday one sees in our theaters someone...

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

On the whole, all people are good, or at least they’re normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch.

There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right of a...

Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for barring us in but for keeping us out of cages. It is our...

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Im Grunde sind diese Gedanken ganz ohne Bedeutung. Die Dingen geschehen eben und ich suche, wie Millionen Menschen vor mir, in ihnen einen Sinn, weil meine Eitelkeit nicht gestatten will, zuzugeben, daß der ganze Sinn...

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t.

I learned many things about human nature, but one of the greatest is the nobility inherent within us all, for one of the greatest things about being human is the ability to be humane

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

…brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives and development. The expectations that run too high: being the bridge between adults...

Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness...

Understand: I don’t ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater…in all things, in all circumstances.

Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that...

Bunlardan nasıl bir ahlak dersi çıkarmalı? Barış, Rabbimiz tarafından ne kadar sevilse de, ancak komşularınız da sizin gibi vicdanlıysa esas erdemlerden biri sayılır.

Because of our selfishness and inclination toward personal comfort and convenience, we’d rather not have to deal with constant change and uncertainty. We have difficulty reconciling the goodness of God with the mystery of his...

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at the same time. It left her with a gorgeous ache, and when she turned...

Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

People, they only love themselves because you only love yourself. Love them, and they will love you.

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I’ve got a nickle in my pocket.

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel’s view of life is Sir Noel. Mead’s mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller’s. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to...

Just because we are capable of art didn’t what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest...

…One thing you learn when you’ve lived as long as I have-people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now,...

Men are by nature wanderers…Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.

That’s an applicable life less, my boy,’ he’d said. ‘Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don’t really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people count...

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It’s only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in...

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge...

Seja como for, as pessoas dedicadas à religião não querem reconhecer a realidade que contradiz o seu conto de fadas. Se realmente vivermos num universo sem Deus, elas perdem o emprego. O fluxo de dinheiro...