Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The white man is destroying the world.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

The American people have not become heartless.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

And every human being is precious.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.