I am for people. I can’t help it.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

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.

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

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 misery loves company, misery has company enough.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

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.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

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. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

There are some loony people in this world!

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

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

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

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’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.