I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

God has entrusted me with myself.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

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

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!

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

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

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.