I am for people. I can’t help it.

The American people have not become heartless.

Your friend is your needs answered.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

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

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

The human heart is the same the world over.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

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

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

If you would judge, understand.

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

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.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.