I look after people.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

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

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

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

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

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

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

If you would judge, understand.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

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.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

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.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

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