T. J. Miller Quotes

We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

My belief is that people are innately good and innately do want to help their fellow man.

I'm passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues.

The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.

Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

I know that I'm not perfect. While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it's an issue that we have to control, that it's part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

If you're a nerd, just be a nerd. That's way better than a nerd who's trying to be a hipster. And if you are going to tell jokes, don't direct them at other people. Not only is it not funny, but it's also mean.

Treating everyone with dignity and respect is of utmost importance to me and are values we instill and take very seriously at Mylan.