Stop trying to explore what is different about yourselves and explore the commonality you have instead.

We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.

Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can’t get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated...

Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good...

We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming swarm of human beings, relatives, customers, servants, postmen, afternoon callers, tradesmen, strangers who...

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, “Like people everywhere!” Uniformity marks the human race.

Someday find my son…tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth.”–A Letter to Jesse Owens