On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

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

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

We will always be a family. Always.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.