I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called ‚Fingers Crossed,‘ which is on SoundCloud.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal… ‚Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?‘

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I’d make my friends be in them and then edit them.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.