I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

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

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

If you give, you will be blessed.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

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

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

General consultant to mankind.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.