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.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I feel Anglo-American.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

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

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

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

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.