I am for people. I can’t help it.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

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

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.

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.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

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.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

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.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

What you guys want, I’m for.

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.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

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.

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

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

OVOXO will always be there.

General consultant to mankind.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.