If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

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

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

You give before you get.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

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

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

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.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

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

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.