It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.