People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

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.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

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

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

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.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.