By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.
I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
Instead of ending U. S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3. 8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U. S. it's able to buy.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.