Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. Use this quote
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. Use this quote
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Use this quote
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. Use this quote
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Use this quote
The human race is governed by its imagination. Use this quote
Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had. Use this quote
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. Use this quote
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. Use this quote
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. Use this quote
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. Use this quote
Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. Use this quote
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. Use this quote
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Use this quote
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling. Use this quote
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. Use this quote
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. Use this quote
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. Use this quote
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Use this quote
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. Use this quote
