If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

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.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

Travel teaches toleration.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‚Facebook phones.‘ That’s what Facebook Home is.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

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

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

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

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.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

No one but a fool is always right.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.