Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

'Hamlet' is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims, but all people equally, showing that we all share the same problems regardless of religion, nation and culture.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

People are genuinely interested in other human beings and their stories.

I love feelings that are universal, things that tie every single person on this earth together. I think we all battle between what we know is right and what we feel is right every single day, and as much as that can be difficult it's absolutely human.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Your enemies are people too, and maybe they don't have to be enemies if they're that much like you.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

Hell is other people at breakfast.

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

You don't have to treat people differently. You may be living a different lifestyle, but the person living that different lifestyle still can relate to anybody and have the same amazing personality of the guy from North Philly.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.

When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.

I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.

It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.