Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. — Henry James

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer

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Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

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What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

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I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.- Neil Armstrong

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ― Charlotte Brontë

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