I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I grew up cursing a lot.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

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!

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.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Words are loaded pistols.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

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.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

Be not a slave of words.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

We will always be a family. Always.

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.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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

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.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

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

Pakistan is not a unified country.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

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

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.