Quotes About Community

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.

It's hard to ignore the hand that feeds you, and today our communities are far more needy than they've ever been, and governments neither have the will nor the ability in many cases to provide the services that they need to.

My family has always encouraged me to think of the needy.

I want to set up a music school for the needy who cannot afford musical education so that they can realize their dreams.

What I found absolutely the best thing about comedy is it's a little club. You find yourself part of this strange needy society of people who want to go on stage and make people happy.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

I think it's interesting to know that being a geek isn't the negative thing that it used to be.

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

I love Scientology. I've been involved for 38 years, and I don't think I'd be here without it because I've had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly.

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

For everyone who hated, there are a hundred people who showed me love, and so, you know, I'm going to spend time showing them love than focusing on the negatives.

That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

I'm so tired of reading all the negativity about black fathers running away and no black men as role models in society. I had a great father. Most of the guys I knew had great fathers.

I love that music will bring people together, because the world is full of negativity.

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

In America, the old are neglected.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?