#Humanity

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species."

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope."

"If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?"

"Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them."

"Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise."

"Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base..."

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'."

"As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires."

"I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?"

"It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate."

"Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide."

"We often concentrate on the negative side of humanity. However, humanity is growing and maturing everyday and showing signs of a better future."