I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

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.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

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.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.