Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

We are all alike, on the inside.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

‚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.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Real living is living for others.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

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.