Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

OVOXO will always be there.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Friends are thieves of time.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

My friends are my estate.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‚Red Storm Rising‘.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.