My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Acting is a journey of self-discovery; every role is a new chapter in understanding the human experience

I’m an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Happiness is the gift of friends; it is born out of human relationships

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

In literature, we find the universality of human experience

Writing is a way to explore the human condition

A novel is a map of the human heart, a guide to the depths of our emotions

Literature is a celebration of the human spirit, a testament to our capacity for creativity and empathy

A good novel is like a mirror that reflects the complexities of human existence

Since philosophy is a piece of human character, it merits a spot in the realm of endless facts.

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Favor comes because, for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress, some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

I’ll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

No human being is illegal.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Human progress goes against the impossible odds and unanimous consent of all.

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day.

The life of a single human being is worth more than all property of the richest man on earth

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

The LORD says, “I will help thee.” Strength within is supplemented by help without. God can raise us up allies in our warfare if so it seems good in His sight; and even if He does not send us human assistance, He Himself will be at our side, and this is better still. “Our August Ally” is better than legions of mortal helpers.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.

The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.

Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Humans – who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals – have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.

As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims; but as an artist, he is a man in a higher sense. He is a ‘collective man’—one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence

Every human life contains a potential. If that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found, given by experience.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument

Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to time.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential

The unfolding of the bare human soul that is what interests me

The greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings… I’m a long way from the human being I’d like to be. But I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all

Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it’s from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it’s shocking for them.