It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.