Because,” she said, “that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn’t they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which...

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the...

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.

The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people’s sides all of her life.

A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.

It’ll turn me into a weapon,’ I say, my voice suddenly loud. ‘All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,’ says Jim. ‘Your body is just...

Licht holt uit. Een mens zit ook zo vol gaten. Een mens zou geslotener moeten zijn. Op den duur kan men niets meer binnenhouden.

Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable […]. Does our education prepare us...

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we...

How do evil people find the strength to do good?

Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different – unique. Yet people turn around and say that at the end of the day,...

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that’s what being a parent is...

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and...

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature.

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up...

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

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?