It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
I really don’t feel any strong allegiance to any country.
I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He’d better be strong and have a good heart!
Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you’re going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least.
I don’t think I’m really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, ‘Oh, God, that is a bit strong.’ And I wonder if I’ve always been like that and I haven’t been aware of it.
Sometimes when you smile, it’s not because you’re happy. It’s because you’re strong.
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.
His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world’s religions.
Without a doubt, any opportunity I have to build that up in New York, I’d do it. I told people all the time, always say, ‘If it takes me taking a pay cut, I’ll be the first one on Mr. Dolan’s steps saying take my money and let’s build something strong over here.’
The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I’ve ever met, he’s the one who most impressed me. It’s tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he’s one of the most intelligent people on the planet.
I’ve always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez – writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
I’m pretty athletic, but I’m not very strong.