As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.
The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.
I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.
To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.
Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.
There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.
I am what I am, and I don't apologize for being honest.
If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.
Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
