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

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?

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

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

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

We are all alike, on the inside.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Society is at odds with itself.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.