I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

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.

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

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

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

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

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

The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

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.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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.

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

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.