M. Russell Ballard Quotes

But we Americans are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

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

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

Every human heart is human.

What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

I tell people, "It's the hardest thing to explain, but it's the easiest thing to understand." And all anybody really needs to know is, the struggles of life, the joy of life, the excitement and the heartbreak of life is something we can all connect to. And I like to hope that the inclusivity of the show [This Is Us] is something that audiences will relate to.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

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

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.