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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

We're not inherently anything but human.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.