We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

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

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

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.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

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.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

We will always be a family. Always.

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

It’s nice when little teams win.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

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

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.