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

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

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

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

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

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

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.

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

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

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.

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.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

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

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

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

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

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

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

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

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 see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

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

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

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.

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

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

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

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.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.