The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured the infant child.
The infant child is not aware
He has been eaten by the bear.

Happiness is the gift of friends; it is born out of human relationships

In literature, we find the universality of human experience

Writing is a way to explore the human condition

Literature is a celebration of the human spirit, a testament to our capacity for creativity and empathy

A good novel is like a mirror that reflects the complexities of human existence

Since philosophy is a piece of human character, it merits a spot in the realm of endless facts.

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Of the 1,223 new medicines developed between 1975 and 1997, just 13 were for tropical diseases. Only four sprang from the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to cure humans. None were found on purpose

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

No human being is illegal.

Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The life of a single human being is worth more than all property of the richest man on earth

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you’re acting.

Women are not to be hit. They’re to be hugged and caressed.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to fifty words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all

God loves you. God doesn’t want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself – but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others

The most important thing in life is human relationships.

We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run

Men will not receive education and manners from their equals, even though they are the wisest and most virtuous of men.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies

It is the imagination that argues for the divine spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them

The scientific community has been screaming out loud. Ninety-nine per cent of the scientific community is in agreement that man is contributing to (climate change).