Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

What's so noble about being dead?

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.