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

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I supported Donald Trump.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

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.

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.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

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

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

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.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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