There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

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.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

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.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

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

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

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.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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

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 think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

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.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

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

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

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.