The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

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.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.