Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not ‘content creator’?

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you’ve never had.

Our nature is to chase the teasing and elusive butterfly of happiness, not always to capture it.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response – that is, high touch – or the technology is rejected… We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result, not only for ourselves, but also for the society to which we belong. I generally refer to this sort of love and affection as a universal religion. Everyone needs it, believers as much as non-believers. This attitude constitutes the very basis of morality.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there’s a heap of choice in the cuts.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?… With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to ‘fly’ as far as eagles under our own power.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.