You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Charlie Chaplin

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Lewis Carroll

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
Dave Barry

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf