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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. ”
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. ”
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. ”
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. ”
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. ”
The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine? ”
During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa. ”
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ”
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ”
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy. ”