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.

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

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

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

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

But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human is all about.

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men