We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role.
don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.
I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".
Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.
I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
