Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

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

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

True nobility is exempt from fear.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Homophobia is real in this country.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

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.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.