Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

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.

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

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

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

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.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

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.

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

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

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

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.

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.

I look after people.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

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.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

What you guys want, I’m for.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

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

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