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.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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.

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.

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

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

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

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

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

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

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.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.