On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

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

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

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.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

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

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Because of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I don’t care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

America is just downright mean.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

I think America has always been polarized.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.