My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Your friend is your needs answered.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

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.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

True friends stab you in the front.

If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.