The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

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.

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.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I’ve been very fortunate.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.