All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

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.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

We are all alike, on the inside.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.