On People

‘Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.’
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
‘Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.’
— Jacob Bronowski
‘If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.’
— Ralph Bunche
‘You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.’
— Walt Disney
‘Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.’
— Aldous Huxley
‘One can present people with opportunity. One cannot make them equal to them.’
— Rosamund Lehmann
‘It has been my experience that men who have no vices have very few virtues.’
— Abraham Lincoln
‘A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.’
— Abraham Maslow
‘Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.’
— Steven Pinker
‘Man is, above all, he who creates.’
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
‘The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.’
— Albert Schweitzer
‘Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.’
— Mark Twain
‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’
— Oscar Wilde