Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

A man’s character is his fate.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

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.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘