I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

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

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.