Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.
There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
A human being is a garden of love. Only you have to know how much water is needed to grow them.
A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.
