Humanity

"What are you Tarzan" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes do - leave one of your kind in the jungle to die if it suited your whim to go elsewhere. If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one has run away from you."

"I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself."

"By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth."

"Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human beings' left to look, see, and understand well enough for one to ask and one to give. Everyone busy, running, jumping, there's no time to study one another. But I guess that's bilge and hogwash, slop and sentiment."

"There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds."

"True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it."

"When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise."

"We cannot save ourselves. It is only Jesus Christ, who can set us free."

"We are an inspiration to one another."

"We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature."

"God has enough timeless resources for all mankind."

"May we love, support and help one another."

"May we embrace one another with love, a smile and a warm hug?"

"Freedom is a free decision."

"It is better to do little things with love than big things without love."

"When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise."

"Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it."

"Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious."

"There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions."