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

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

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

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

The white man is destroying the world.

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

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

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.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

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

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

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.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

I am just one human being.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.