Power must be used but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news but in hindsight I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

I have a very low level of recognition which is fine by me.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth yet until we have felt its force it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Equality is the public recognition effectively expressed in institutions and manners of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.