"To regret fully and wholeheartedly is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life. Fully experienced, regret turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibility lived better than the past." David Whyte, Poet and Philosopher
"The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories." Mary Catherine Bateson
"All human life is worth the same, and worth saving."
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
Don Miguel Ruiz
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
"Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do."
Betty White
"I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder."
Emma Thompson
"What makes us human is an ability to ask questions."
Jane Goodall
"All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use."
Alan Bennett
"Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart."
Florence King