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

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

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

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.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

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

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

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

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

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

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

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.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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

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

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.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

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

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.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.