Listen if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
Business is not just doing deals business is having great products doing great engineering and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
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.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.
It's human nature to gripe but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
The human species according to the best theory I can form of it is composed of two distinct races the men who borrow and the men who lend.
For the last five years we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has and I think maybe what we saw was the best.
No human being is constituted to know the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments with partial glimpses never the full fruition.
It's impossible I think however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Every day people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
I'm human I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best and making what is best out of them.
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also all too often where we learn nasty things like hate rage and shame.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
One way or another we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life and dedicate ourselves to that.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults.