To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the good guys, you see darkness surface.
I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.
I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.
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.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
