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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

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

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

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

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

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

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

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

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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

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.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

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.