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.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

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

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

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

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

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

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

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

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

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.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

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.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.