If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

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

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Freedom is relative.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I am the freest author in the world.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.