The truth about PEOPLE at every economic level of LIFE is you GET those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, WHETHER they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any STREET you go to.

You can be moved by an animated FILM and not by a live action film. There could be GREAT INSPIRATION in and humanity in that animated story.

I THINK there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and WRONG, and they LOSE sight of HUMANITY. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

Nuclear war is such an EMOTIONAL SUBJECT that many people see the weapons themselves as the COMMON ENEMY of HUMANITY.

All of them - my FATHER, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all WONDERFUL actors and PERFORMERS and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their HUMANITY.

What is TRUE for book publishing is true for civilization: the BOOKS that survive the TEST of TIME are humanity's backlist, our collective MEMORY.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the PHENOMENA with which we are obliged to LIVE. In all of nature, there is nothing so THREATENING to HUMANITY as humanity itself.

I SEE myself as a WITNESS to HUMANITY.

The SOUL, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows CONSTANTLY open to the invigorating air of large and FREE ideas: and what thought is so GRAND as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?

Johnny Knoxville has such an INCREDIBLE humanity to him when you meet him. He's so WARM and so funny, and he can sort of get into TROUBLE and you sort of FORGIVE him immediately.

'Hell in a Handbasket' is not DEALING with the POLITICAL nature of the COUNTRY. It's dealing with the HUMANITY and the compassion of the world.

The BRAIN was not built to walk into a BAR, where you know NOBODY, and START a conversation. That's not the way HUMANITY has courted.

I SUSPECT PRIVACY is a very NEW CONCEPT to HUMANITY.