“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”

“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”

“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”

“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”

“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own tr...”

“Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.”

“My calling ties me to no office, makes me no man's slave, compels me to no action which my soul condemns. It sets me free from town life, which I loathe; and allows me to breathe clean air, to exer...”

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

“Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.”