The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.

I bring a lot of energy and passion to what I do. Plus, I've had some weird feats of superhuman strength!