Quotes about Connection

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

A man without a home can't be lost.

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.

What you make happen for others, GOD will make happen for you.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again — I dwell among the people."

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.