To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

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.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

All through Latin America, there’s sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it’s qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.