People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

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.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

We are all alike, on the inside.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

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

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

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.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

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.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

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

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.