A house divided against itself cannot stand.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

It’s nice when little teams win.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

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.

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.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

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

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.

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

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.