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

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Children make your life important.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

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.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‚Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?‘ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

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.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

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

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

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

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

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

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

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