These are not in any order, but even if I were to try, how could I order the sayings and remarks of some of the greatest humans ever to walk the planet? Wittgenstein said in 1948, no doubt following Tolstoy, in reference to a religious man, that he "is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but thin air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it." Religion as a passionate commitment to a system of reference? Spot on.

"The mediator between the Head and the Hands must be the Heart" - from 'Metropolis'

"Aspire not to have more, but to be more" - Archbishop Oscar Romero

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness" - Martin Luther King

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite" - Leo Tolstoy

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity" - Leo Tolstoy

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest" - Thomas Paine

"We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful" - Charles Chaplin

"A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 30 has wasted 20 years of his life" - Muhammad Ali

"Time is like a circus... always packing up and moving on" - Ben Hecht

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion" - Mohandas Gandhi

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind" - Albert Einstein

"Some men are born mediocre, some gain mediocrity, and some have mediocrity thrust upon them" - Joseph Heller

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it" - William James

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