I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.