Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.