Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

The bottom line is people are people, and the sooner we realise that, the better off things are going to be.

There's so much more to people than their differences.

When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

We're all people at the end of the day.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.