We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories...

And I here make a rule - a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting - only the deeply personal and familiar.

Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated* Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why...

We can assume that those who 'have it all' and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.

I didn't thank God. Doctor Carter, do you think everything happened the way it did because I forgot to thank God? Do you think that God might somehow be as petty as I am?

A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say "Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it.

Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When Liza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her...

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature.

I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.

He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims — the outcasts of...

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil learned a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as...

Human being is the only creature I found who does everything he is not supposed to do.

For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence. Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human...

I am only human, although I regret it.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural...

Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into silence....

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

Every person is a big mystery a thing build of secrets, gambles and lies. That's what's about to be a mankind.

I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .

Can somebody please explain how humans can be so inhumane?

Good – nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other... every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there,...

He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while your father is on his deathbed, what you ought to think of your pleasure, of acting...

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally.