Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.

Al igual que el resto del mundo, nací desnuda.

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

When the sands of time come falling down, we are only left with our choices. Choose wisely; however, some may argue wisdom is relative.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

…He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: “Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors;...

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise...

There is a requirement of money in everyone’s life to fulfill own basic needs and do good deeds for others, but a person becomes its slave indeed only on sowing the seed of the selfishness...

It takes enough courage to accept the truth and it takes only truth to accept the courage

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.

If you are stealing people’s thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can’t expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans...

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than...

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won’t make that mistake again.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

History is a record of human nature in action.

He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.

There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and upon us by our own habits and memories; recognition of the ways in...

Madeleine in her turn stared at him steadily, straight into his eyes, in a profound, strange way, as if seeking to read something there, as if seeking to discover there that hidden part of a...

In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.

character,” but all it amounts to is that the writers are enjoying themselves writing lies and the readers are enjoying themselves reading lies. In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and...

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Oh, people get used to so many things,” said Vadesh, “if only they give them selves a chance.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him.

For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn’t know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight through deception and see to the heart of truth was often...

For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human dress.Songs of InnocenceCruelty has a human heartAnd jealousy a human face,Terror the human form divine,And secrecy the human...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness...

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a...

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

Wonder of time,’ quoth she, ‘this is my spite,That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light.’Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy:Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend:It shall be waited on with...

It’s our nature, isn’t it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

I wasn’t sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first – the story of our quest for sexual love – is well known and well charted, its vagaries form...

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put...

I’m Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..

I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take,...

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods and walking out into the sunny rows of corn, waving seeds to a yellow horizon....

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

How wrong and petty any life is.

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People...

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

WHETHER IT’S A CHILD’S TOY OR A NATION’S OIL, IT’S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT’S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to...

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.