No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, ‚What can I do? I’m basically a victim.‘

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

My long hair and the sideburns made me stand out, really, because my hairstyle was completely different to the other footballers of that era.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

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

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.