What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Every President wants to do right.

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

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

The little man is still a man.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Every wall is a door.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.