‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

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

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

A true man hates no one.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

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.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

I was raised to be independent.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

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

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

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.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.