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...

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and...

Nobody sane loves working in an office, It’s against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone...

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even...

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be...

If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability – cause and effect. It’s the physics of human nature, and to truly...

The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in a way that comforts. She is mischief but then she is the warmth...

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child’s talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts...

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

Anybody’s true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he’d made against them, laid up in a sag on some rise...

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

The experience of humanism is that ‘nothing human is alien to me’; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am...

I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds...

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep – but an intruder came, now, that would not “down”. It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they...

It’s a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they’ve got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why…

Because human nature never changes.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

I can’t help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. […] How would I know what it means? I don’t know what anything means. What it suggests...

If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid. Lavish. Inspirational. It shapes leaves. It rolls the waters of the earth. Man...

The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition