There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

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.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Compassion is the basis of morality.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

The American people have not become heartless.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

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.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

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

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

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 have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.