Quotes about Community

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

A crowd is always impressed by the sum of its own number.

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

It's a lovely moment when everyone's part of something greater than the sum of its parts. That encapsulates what a comedy gig should be, with the comic as the lightning rod, the Norse mischief god, getting the audience to do something they wouldn't necessarily do.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.