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

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

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

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

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.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

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

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

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

OVOXO will always be there.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

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.