I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

Everyone knows and understands the good values, but it is only the best people who go better to do good to uplift the human values.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back.

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?