I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

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

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.