We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.
Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.
This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
