We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

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.

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

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

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.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

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.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.