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

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

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

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

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

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.