When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

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.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

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’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Homophobia is real in this country.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Racism is real in this country.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.