Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Habit is ten times nature.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.