The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

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.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

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

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

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.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

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.

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

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

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

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

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

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

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.