A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most.

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

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

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

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

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

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature—like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines

Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.