Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit.

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods) will have to come down again and attain to salvation through a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas.

The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.

He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity’s prime characteristic.

The ability to do, to make, to generate and contribute is the essence of a human being.

When I see people, everyone, every human, I understand that I am in the presence of greatness. Maybe potential greatness, or greatness unpolished, or greatness unfound, but every person has the ability."

When I see people, everyone, every human, I understand that I am in the presence of greatness. Maybe potential greatness, or greatness unpolished, or greatness unfound, but every person has the ability.