I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Syllables govern the world.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

The world remains ever the same.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

We are all special cases.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.