We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Real living is living for others.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

If you would judge, understand.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

The human heart is the same the world over.