No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.
Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully.
Existence of mankind, the glory of God.
Without hope we fail to exist.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
