It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I just want to lobby for God.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I just feel that ‚The Color Purple,‘ which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I was not an activist.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

How can we help President Obama?

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!