Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do.

What has she done to deserve such scorn?’ I said. He had the grace to look uncomfortable as he answered. ‘Not her in particular, miss,’ he said, ‘Just her sort. People like her in general,...

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it’s something that made everything possible (…) The tribe, sir....

frail.” They are not artistic: they are only lascivious. They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not...

God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very different culture, a different time period. They had their problems and we have...

However, in this city (San Francisco) that prides itself in being so progressive, it feels like we need to go back and master something both simple as well as incredibly complex – each other. We...

Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance.

I write to express my love for the humanity.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he...

Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and...

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South...

Humanity must forgive ‘Humanity’, for only then can we be Humane.

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never...

All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome...

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

Jesus Christ is coming back because God’s divine plan for humanity involves a second exodus; a supernatural exodus.

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a...

A human being – what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within...

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may...

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we’re all part of the conversation.

Unsere Fähigkeit zur Verantwortung ist […] nicht etwas, das durch Philosophen, Politiker oder Geistliche quasi von außen in unser Leben hineingebracht würde, sie gehört vielmehr zum Grundbestand des Humanum. Wir verlieren uns selbst, wenn wir...

All of humanity’s crimes,’ Salvador said, spitting a bone atop the pyramidal pile in his bowl, ‘are only degrees of theft.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

The more I pursue God, the more I realize that he is inherently different from us. He does not protect his possessions and hoard his toys. He does not look forways to make us jealous...

Dont let her clothes down for your sexual need.

The world’s a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you’ve seen worse things, haven’t you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel.

We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane.” Jessica Edouard

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”(Young India, 22 October 1925)

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so...

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

{From Luther Burbank’s funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death threats. He tried to amiably answer them all, leading to his death}It is impossible to...

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It’s the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my...

Angels love to create synchronicities because each synchronicity produces an illumination point for a soul to connect the dots on life experiences. This insight, in turn, creates an opportunity to expand the heart and grow...

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

My task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.

A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.

With no blame there’s no shame. A human society can’t exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It’s a central human attribute. In fact, it’s the first human quality ever recorded.”Where?”Genesis, Chapter...

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

While there is Ego, you will never be one with the universe… Or love your fellow man.

Imperfection is true perfection.