My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

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.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.