The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

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.

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.

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.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

God created man, but I could do better.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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

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.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

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.

The American people have not become heartless.

God made me and broke the mold.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Let the path be open to talent.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

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

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

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.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

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.

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

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.