We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

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.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Intimates are predestined.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

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

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

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.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

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

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.