Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

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

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

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

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.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

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.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

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

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.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‚Wow, she looks so beautiful.‘ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‚What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.‘ It’s pretty ridiculous.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

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.

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.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.