We are all special cases.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I am just one human being.

I’m totally myself.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.