Law is born from despair of human nature.
Natural laws admit of no exceptions.
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
That's human nature - the ups and downs.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
People want to typecast you; it's human nature.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Even ill-natured cows give milk.
Nature hangs out her sign everywhere.
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.
What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?' I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?
