What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.