Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.