As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.
What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.
It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.
Our true nationality is mankind.
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?