No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the...

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

…tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.

…suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made self-interest the motive of all human action, but in the great host of...

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.”From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths

When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying...

Siate sinceri! Siate sempre sinceri! E mostrate francamente al mondo, se non proprio il vostro lato peggiore, almeno qualche aspetto, da cui possa essere noto il peggiore male che è in voi.

The most painful emotions are better than none at all. Ironically, we make you human.

… People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they...

Why are they like that?’ I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek.’I don’t know,’ Cico answered, ‘except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem...

Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It’s fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third.

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;...