Humanum Genus Quotes

#1. Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

John Robbins

#2. People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.

Nick Hanauer

#3. It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Be happy 'cause happy ain't about what you got, it's about what you do with what you got.

Casey Robbins

#5. Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

John Updike

#6. If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never ever exist and if it does exist it need never ever progress.

Dr. Esselstyn

#7. I should have never taught you girls to read! I suspect you have been reading the Bible behind my back-that is enough to fill a girl's head with folly?

Anne Fortier

#8. Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#9. That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

David Brooks

#10. I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

Marisha Pessl

#11. When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

Edwidge Danticat

#12. My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.

Harper Lee

#13. Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Benjamin Spock

#14. No day passed that did not present an opportunity to become obsessed with a new area of concern.

Bea Gonzalez