Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.