I look after people.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

A true man hates no one.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

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.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The American people have not become heartless.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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

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

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

My son has died of AIDS.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

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

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?