We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I’m a can-do girl.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.