We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

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.

Respect the burden.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

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 was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

No one but a fool is always right.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

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

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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

Christians are not limited to any church.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.