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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.