The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

And every human being is precious.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

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.

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.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

The human heart is the same the world over.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

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.

Law is mind without reason.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.