Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!