I am for people. I can’t help it.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Never find fault with the absent.

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

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

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

Do everything as in the eye of another.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

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

My son has died of AIDS.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

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

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

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.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

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

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I am just one human being.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.