"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."

"Humility is attentive patience."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

"Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just."

"I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free"

"We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?"

"I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being."

"Is it human nature that we're going to be complacent? I don't see that in any way, ... As a staff, we've worked harder and longer and recruited more than ever before. Probably the opposite of what you think has happened we're more driven then ever."

"It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage."

"Impudence is the worst of all human diseases."

"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function."

"...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting"

"If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things too."

"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

"In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day."

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."