The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‚Happy Birthday.‘

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

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

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

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

Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

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

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Our nation must come together to unite.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Pakistan is not a unified country.