Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

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

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I didn’t want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

God made me and broke the mold.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

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.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

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

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

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.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.